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Un caso limite di persuasione. Strategie argomentative in Metafisica Gamma
2014
A partire dall’analisi del IV libro della Metafisica di Aristotele, l’articolo si propone di fornire alcuni spunti di riflessione sul funzionamento dei processi persuasivi nella prospettiva aristotelica. La difesa del principio di non contraddizione, infatti, si presenta come un caso di studio estremamente interessante per chi voglia studiare da una parte la relazione tra persuasione, evidenza e dimostrazione e, dall’altra, più in generale, il ruolo della persuasione nell’antropologia aristotelica.
Storie e immagini di una città contraddittoria
2018
Una città “bella e immensa” è, per Idrisi, Palermo. I monumenti, il mare, il monte Pellegrino, “promontorio più bello del mondo” così come definito da Goethe. E poi, la capacità di produrre del nuovo, che nuovo non è, per affermare la sua esistenza superando facilmente il suo essere “luogo di intrighi e imbrogli”. Una città che, nel suo centro storico, si è adeguata al consumismo e che ha lasciato la sua storia al profumo di un hamburger e che è riuscita a dimenticare il senso del suo disegno urbano. According to Idrisi Palermo is a “beautiful and immense” city. Its monuments, the sea, the Mount Pellegrino as Goethe defined it “the most beautiful promontory in the world”. And then, the abil…
The Dialectics of Free Energy Minimization
2019
Karl Friston’s free energy minimization has been received with great enthusiasm. With good reason: it not only makes the bold claim to a unifying theory of the brain, but it is presented as an a priori principle applicable to living systems in general. In this article, we set out to show how the breadth of scope of Friston’s framework converges with the dialectics of Georg Hegel. Through an appeal to the work of Catherine Malabou, we aim to demonstrate how Friston not only reinvigorates Hegelian dialectics from the perspective of neuroscience, but that the implicit alignment with Hegel necessitates a reading of free energy minimization from the perspective of Hegel’s speculative philosophy.…
An activity theory perspective on contradictions in flipped mathematics classrooms at the university level
2019
Author´s accepted manuscript (postprint). This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology on 24/03/2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/0020739X.2019.1591533.
What Research Shows about Mathematics Teachers' Learning Needs: Experience from Latvia
2015
<p><em>The implementation of new skills (competencies) according to education regulation documents in 2006 – 2008 demanded a change in the Mathematics and Science teaching practice in Latvia. Work on the new education reform started this year (2015). The aim of the research is to look for the answers to the following questions – do the changes in learning approach occur and are teachers’ skills sufficient for organizing a different teaching process? What are the learning needs expressed by teachers and concluded by experts? The range of cognitive activity, collaboration and focusing on students’ learning are the criteria set for lesson observations. The research shows a tendency…
Mentoring as Dialogue, Collaboration and/or Assessment?
2012
In this chapter, some tensional trends within mentoring, which we call a contradiction between collaboration and assessment, are addressed. The aim is threefold: First, to describe and compare the development of mentoring programmes in Finland and Sweden at the system level; second, to illustrate how the various mentoring systems have been experienced by the persons involved; and third, to discuss the political and ideological circumstances and the possible effects of these solutions. The study is based on empirical data gathered in Finland and Sweden and examines the experiences of mentors and newly qualified teachers (NQTs) as well as the relevant national policies. The findings indicate …
‘Strong and courageous’ but ‘constantly insecure’: dialogical self theory, intersecting identities, and Christian mixed martial arts
2021
Being a mixed martial arts fighter and a devout Christian seems to present an apparent contradiction that requires identity work to bring these identities into unity. We used Dialogical Self Theory and explored the autobiography of Ron ‘H2O’ Waterman, a professional fighter turned evangelist, to understand how the tensions between the different identities or I-positions were negotiated. We identified two I-positions, ‘Ron the Fighter’ and ‘Ron the Pater Familias’, which related differently to religion, sport, and masculinity. Importantly, the negotiations were not between MMA and faith, but between these two I-positions that served the different needs for self-enhancement and union with som…
Measuring dissatisfaction with coauthorship: An empirical approach based on the researchers’ perception
2019
Abstract Increasing levels of collaboration constitute one of the characteristics of science. However, the knowledge production system is based on a fundamental discordance: on the one hand, it is cooperative in nature, with links articulated through coauthorships, and on the other, the systems for assigning merit and distributing rewards function on an individual scale. This contradiction can give rise to dysfunction and inappropriate practices. This study analyses researchers’ perceptions about the problems associated with authorship in scientific publications. We make use of a coauthorship dissatisfaction index that measures the degree of dissatisfaction with the author order on the byli…
What does Ramon Llull mean when he says «[el resclús] se maravellá com podia esser que Deus no exoya la natura humana de Jesucrist, qui pregava per s…
2014
The proto-novel Fèlix, o Llibre de meravelles contains many unsettling «meravelles» or «wonders». One such consists in an observation made by a «recluse» —rather than by a professional theologian— concerning the prayers of Christ and of Mary and the angels, etc., to the effect that their prayers have been unable to call forth any response from God. The efficacy of such prayers is thus brought into question, as is the readiness of God’s mercy and grace. By contextualising such matters within medieval currents of Neoplatonism, particularly the doctrine of causality, I argue that Llull presents a causally conceived theorisation of the hypostatic union. I identify Biblical and medieval preceden…
Toward Understanding Contradictions in Enterprise System Implementations: Insights from a Case Study
2013
This chapter presents findings from a study of the implementation of an enterprise system in an organization. The implementation process is viewed from a dialectic perspective, which means thinking in terms of contradictions. This chapter raises the following research question: how can we understand contradictions in enterprise system (ES) implementations? To answer this question, an interpretive research approach was chosen. The empirical part is a longitudinal case study. The system was in this case an innovative combination of collaboration and information management technologies. The main contradiction studied in this case was between an as-is implementation of standard software and an …